The Justice Department unsealed charges related to the 2011 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox and the operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e. According to court documents, Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, both Russian nationals, are charged with conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins from their hack of Mt. Gox. Bilyuchenko…
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UK: University of Manchester trying to resolve “cyber incident”
Dan Davies reports: The University of Manchester has confirmed experts are working to resolve a “cyber incident”. On Friday morning, the institution said some of its data had been accessed by an “unauthorised party” and data have “likely been copied”. The uni said it was working with a number of organisations including the Information Commissioner’s…
Perhaps victims shouldn’t be so quick to claim “no evidence so far…”
In November 2022, Pearland ISD in Texas informed parents and employees about a breach and told them that ongoing investigation so far had shown no evidence that any sensitive information had been accessed by anyone outside of the district. In June 2023, Pearland sent letters to 55,486 people whose personal information had been accessed or acquired…
Data on as many as 100,000 Nova Scotia healthcare staff stolen in MOVEit breach
As most people know by now, there are a LOT of victims from Clop’s attack on Progress MoveIT. So many, in fact, that they posted an announcement to all victims, giving the victims until June 14 to contact Clop to negotiate payment to delete data. The Boots pharmacy chain in the U.K. was affected, but…
Ascension Seton reports data breach of websites
Olivia Aldridge reports: The Austin hospital system Ascension Seton experienced a data breach of two websites earlier this year, potentially exposing the personal information of certain users. Ascension Seton issued a statement Tuesday saying its legacy websites — Seton.net and DellChildrens.net — were breached on March 1 and 2. The hospital system said it has…
Pacific Union College was attacked on March 27. When will they publicly admit personal info was compromised?
That Pacific Union College (PUC) experienced a cyberattack is not a secret. The college even posted a notice on their website on April 7 stating that they were experiencing “Additional complications relating to the ongoing cybersecurity issue, which has recently affected some of our internal networks, phone systems, and web services. The remainder of the…